Research Article

Tissue Expression and Actin Binding of a Novel N-Terminal Utrophin Isoform

Table 1

Primer used for PCR (for localisation of primers along the cDNA, see Figure 2(a)).

Forward primerBackward primer

A Rut13FB Rut23B
C Rut14FD Rut24B
E Rut18FF Rut25B
G Rut28B
H Rut19FJ Rut41B

PCR product size

A-B: 110 bp
A–D: 215 bp
A–F: 326 bp
A–G: 499 bp
C-D: 96 bp
C–F: 207 bp
C–G: 380 bp
E-F: 103 bp
E–G: 276 bp
H-J: 104 bp

Primer sequnce

Forward primer

RUT 13F5′ CAA AGT GAC CTC GAA GCT GAG C 3′ rat utrophin 15871608
RUT 14F5′ GGG TGA GCG CTG GAC AGC TG 3′ rat utrophin 17061725
RUT 18F5′ GTG CAA CGA CCA TCC ATC AAG G 3′ rat N-utrophin 18101831
RUT 19F5′ GTC TTT TGG AAG CTT GGC TCA CC 3′ rat utrophin 18041826

Backward primer

RUT 23B5′ AAC TGA TCT TCC AAA ACA GCT GTG 3′ rat utrophin 16731696
RUT 24B5′ TGT TCT TCC AAT AAT TCC TGC CAC 3′ rat N-utrophin 17781801
RUT 25B5′ TTC CAG AGC TCT CAC TAC AGA AG 3′ rat N-utrophin 18901912
RUT 28B5′ CCC CAG AAT TAC GAA GGT CAC AC 3′ rat N-utrophin 20632085
RUT 41B5′ CAG ACG CCG GAC ACT GAC ACC 3′ rat utrophin 18871907